WRITER EXCLUSIVE
Jango Fett faces off against Aurra Sing in his new Marvel miniseries
WITH BOUNTY Hunters coming to a close with issue 42, comics writer Ethan Sacks is now spinning out another mercenary into his own miniseries. After juggling Bounty Hunters’ ensemble cast, he is instead focusing on one central character, Mandalorian Jango Fett.
“Jango Fett is one of my all-time favourite characters from the Star Wars franchise,” Sacks tells Red Alert. “I feel he has been eclipsed by his son in recent years because of The Book Of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian and the time that has passed since the prequels, but he is just as cool as I remember him.”
Taking place at the height of his career, the four-parter showcases Jango at his very best. “What I love about Jango Fett, particularly at this point in his timeline – before Kamino and the responsibilities of fatherhood – is that he’s a warrior at the top of his game, so we’re seeing him in his prime, at a time when this ‘simple man just trying to make (his) way through the universe’ is building his legend one bounty at a time,” explains Sacks, paraphrasing one of Jango’s speeches from Attack Of The Clones.
Having previously included Boba in Bounty Hunters’ line-up, Sacks appreciates the contrast between the elder and junior Fett. “Jango is certainly more well-adjusted than Boba during the original trilogy era when he’s carrying a lot of emotional baggage from the horrific loss of his father and the void that left, so no wiping the floor with Valance is going to fill that,” he says, referring to the cyborg assassin, who was another of Bounty Hunters’ main protagonists. “He’s had to raise himself, and all that makes Boba a darker character with which to play.”
As previewed in the recent Star Wars: Revelations, Jango is recruited to track down those behind the disappearance of a sacred artefact, which could have serious repercussions for the
